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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GUS"AV L. .IAEGER, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

BOX-STAYING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,522, dated September 3, 1889.

Application filed May 1, 1889. Serial No. 309,257. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUSTAV L. JAEGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Box-Staying Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in box-staying machines, and by means of this invention the stay will be pressed with equal firmness against two sides or faces of the box, as set forth in the following specification and claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation, partly in section, of a box-staying device. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of an anvil. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a base for an anvil. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a modification. Fig. 5 is a side elevation, partly in section, of an anvil. Fig. (5 is a section along lineman, Fig. 1. Figs. 7 and Sshow a modification.

as Similarletters indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, the letter A indicates a plunger or die adapted to press a stayingstrip B about a box corner. The plunger is operated by suitable mechanism, (not shown,) such as a cam, foot-lever, or other appliance. The box is made to rest on the anvil or support 0. Said anvil is carried by a suitable arm or base I). The anvil is made laterally movable upon its base, so that in case of unevenness in the box-sides-as, for example, in Fig. 1, where one box-side is composed of a single wall E, while another box-side is partly composed of a double wall E E-the anvil can move laterally to such position that the plunger A. can press the stay B with equal. firmness against said two box-sides.

The lateral movability of the anvil is secured in any suitable way. In Figs. 1 to 3 the lateral niovability of the anvil is obtained by a pin-and-slot connection, the pins F and slots G allowing the anvil to move laterally, while preventing the anvil falling off the arms D. In Fig. 4 the pin-and-slot connection is replaced by dovetails F, which engage suitable lateral ways G.

IVhen the anvil is relieved from pressure, a spring 11 returns said anvil to the starting position. 3y having the under face of the anvil rounded the anvil can rock on its base, thus enabling said anvil to assume a position adapted to secure a firm pressure evenly about the box-corner. The anvil can be thus rounded both transversely, Fig. 1, as also longitudinally, Figs. 5 and 6.

The spring II is shown suitably secured to the base by a screw I and engaging a suitable eye or depression K in the anvil.

In place of the anvil being made laterally movable, it is obvious that the die can be made laterally movable, thus again securing an even pressure about the box-corner. In Fig. 7 is shown a face view of a laterallymovable die A, held in place by a dovetail connection F G. A spring II tends to hold the die A in the starting position on its support. Fig. 8 is a side view of Fig. 7. \Vhen the die A is laterally movable, as in Figs. 7 and 8, the anvil C may be fixed.

hat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a machine for applying corner-stays to boxes, the combination, with the die A, of an anvil or support 0, said anvil being made laterally movable upon its base, substantially as described.

2. In a machine for applying corner-stays to boxes, the combination, with the die A, of an anvil or support 0, having a laterallyoscillating motion, substantially as described.

3. In a machine for applying corner-stays to boxes, the combination, with the die A, of an anvil or support 0, having a longitudinally-oscillating motion, substantially as described.

4. In a machine for applying corner-stays to boxes, the combination, with the die A, of an anvil or support 0, laterally movable upon its base, and a spring H, for holding said anvil in the starting position, substantially as described.

5. In a machine for applying cornenstays to boxes, the combination, with the die A, of an anvil or support O, made laterally movable upon its base and secured to said base by a In testimony whereof I have hereunto set pin-and-slot connection, substantially as demyhand in the presence of two-subscribing 1o scribed; Witnesses.

6. In a machine for attaching corner-stays 5 to boxes, the combination, with the die A, of GUSTAV JAEGER" an anvil or support 0, either said die or anvil Witnesses: being made laterally movable, substantially WILLIAMS. HAUFF, as described. ERNST F. KASTENHUBER. 

